also, I can't tell you "who has it worse" because I only experienced the things I experienced. I - & everyone - am blind to a lot of the elements of the gendered experiences I did not have, & the ones that were not forced upon me. The grass certainly looks greener, but then again, it always does.

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but it's crucially, not one single process that's the same for everyone, and even two people experiencing the same corrective violence will have very different outcomes because personality is, to some degree, genetic.

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"gender socialization" is an extremely violent process, that trans people experience both in childhood then again in a much shorter time period, but no less violently, often receiving 18+ years of "gender socialization" (better labeled corrective violence) again in a period of as little as 6 months.

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I remember making this exact point 18 years ago or so on my blog and people got furious at me. almost as furious as when I said that trans women are female.

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I may have to un-private my video about gender. socialization is real but pretty much no one is being socialized into a single concept of "Male" or "Female" we have an expansive set of gendered roles children are violently forced into through "socialization," we just don't explicitly label them.

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